[Moderating]
Edited from the forum guidelines originally posted by Tallyman, please note my points of emphasis created by inclusion in this excerpt, italics and spacing:
PPR Forum Guidelines. Updated July 2012.
While it is acceptable to attack and debate beliefs (political, religious etc) it is not acceptable to make generalised attacks on the adherents of those beliefs.
It is acceptable to say that Republicanism, Liberalism, Christianity, Islam are stupid but not acceptable to make generalised attacks saying that Republicans, Liberals, Christians or Muslims are morons.
You could say that some of these people are stupid because of (reason) but not make generalised attacks on groups of people. Similarly you could not say "Christians are morons" or "Muslims are terrorists" or "People on welfare are bums".
Confine your attacks to the beliefs and politics, not the people holding them.
The one exception to this is public figures themselves – by the very nature of their roles they are personally open to criticism.
Personal attacks.
Posters must refrain from making personal attacks. Do not call people stupid or a***holes etc for not agreeing with you. You are allowed to think this - moderators aren't the thought police! Just don't express it in your posts! Attack the opinion not the poster.
Personal attacks are a slightly fuzzy area because criticising someone's political or religious beliefs could be interpreted by some as a personal attack (but moderators do not consider it such) similarly it is easy to insinuate that someone is stupid for having various opinions but frankly the moderators don't have the time or inclination to wade through every post looking for sarcastic comments!
Provided people don't get too out of hand this forum is given a wide scope for debate; which frankly is what the members themselves want here, not moderators stepping in all the time censoring their opinions.
[end of guideline excerpt]
There are numerous posts in the last few pages of this thread that cross these guidelines both in generalized attacks on groups and in personal attacks. This will not be tolerated in future. If you have grown accustomed to debating with these elements thrown in, please moderate your posts going forward.
21 Mar 2016, 1:14 pm
